from the August 16, 2014, Northwest Herald (Illinois) Buzz.
Dyess, Arkansas.
Money and memorabilia from Johnny Cash's family and friends have helped preservationists restore a large part of the Historic Dyess Colony, a government collective built during the Great Depression to help agricultural families out of poverty. Johnny Cash's family lived here while he was growing up and his boyhood home and the colony's former headquarters opened Saturday.
The colony and town is in northeastern Arkansas and was on once sunken land.
Ruth Hawkins, executive director of the heritage Sites Program at Arkansas State University said, "Restoring the Dyess Colony Administration Building, and even saving at least one of the typical colony houses, would have been a worthwhile project, even without the Johnny Cash connection.
"But the project would not have gotten anywhere near the public support that it has, and it would not be a major tourism draw.
I am aware of a lot of the projects developed to help get the country out of the Great Depression, but hadn't heard of this one.
"Because You're Mine, i walk the ___." --Dacoot in Black
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